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Another year comes to a close and I might add quickly. Ev­ery passing year goes by more quickly. It doesn't seem to matter if I come into the office early or come in on a Saturday to catch up on some work, the time flies by and I never seem to have enough time to accomplish all the tasks that I want. I often reflect back to the lyrics of an old Jim Croce song named Time In A Bottle. Croce sang "... there never seems to be enough time" and "If I could save time in a bottle, The first thing that I'd like to do, Is to save every day .." I wish that I could have bottled all of those slow-moving times when I was a child or young man and be able to open them now.
I know that this is not a unique experience. I have
Goat Newsletter
Cooperative Extension Program
Langston University
The Newsletter of the E (Kika) de la Garza American Institute for Goat Research Fall 2012The Cooperative Extension Program at Langston University provides educational programs to individuals regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age disability or status as a veteran. Issued in furtherance of Extension work, Act of September 29, 1977, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
From the Director’s Deskoften heard other people also say that the years pass more quickly as they get older. A common explanation for this is that when we are young ev­erything is new so we pay more attention and our brain records every detail; consequently, it feels like time expands. In his book entitled Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, neu­roscientist David Eagleman of Baylor College of Medicine asks us to remember back to our first kiss. Everything about that moment is novel — the touch of the lips, the excite­ment, the taste, the smell — and you aren't relying upon a bank of previous experiences, you are starting fresh. Eagle­man says that when you recall your first kiss, early birthdays, your earliest summer vaca­tions, they seem to be in slow motion. "I know when I look back on a childhood summer, it seems to have lasted forever," he says.
That's because there are so many things to remember when it's the "first". The list of encoded memories is so dense and detailed that remember­ing or reliving them gives you a feeling that they must have taken forever. But that's an illusion. "It's a construction of the brain," says Eagleman. "The more memory you have of something, you think, 'Wow, that really took a long time!'
"Of course, you can see this in everyday life," says Eagleman, "when you drive to your new workplace for the first time and it seems to take a really long time to get there. But when you drive back and forth to your work every day after that, it takes no time at all, because you're not really writ­ing it down anymore. There's nothing novel about it."
With age, though, new experiences diminish and it tends to be more of the same, so time seems to pass more quickly. Whether or not this is true, there is some psychologi­cal evidence that time passes quicker for older people. One study has found that people in their 20's are pretty accurate at guessing an interval of 3 min­utes, but people in their 60's systematically overestimate it, suggesting time is passing about 20% more quickly for them.
Back to Eagleman's Incog­nito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. Eagle­

Another year comes to a close and I might add quickly. Ev­ery passing year goes by more quickly. It doesn't seem to matter if I come into the office early or come in on a Saturday to catch up on some work, the time flies by and I never seem to have enough time to accomplish all the tasks that I want. I often reflect back to the lyrics of an old Jim Croce song named Time In A Bottle. Croce sang "... there never seems to be enough time" and "If I could save time in a bottle, The first thing that I'd like to do, Is to save every day .." I wish that I could have bottled all of those slow-moving times when I was a child or young man and be able to open them now.
I know that this is not a unique experience. I have
Goat Newsletter
Cooperative Extension Program
Langston University
The Newsletter of the E (Kika) de la Garza American Institute for Goat Research Fall 2012The Cooperative Extension Program at Langston University provides educational programs to individuals regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age disability or status as a veteran. Issued in furtherance of Extension work, Act of September 29, 1977, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
From the Director’s Deskoften heard other people also say that the years pass more quickly as they get older. A common explanation for this is that when we are young ev­erything is new so we pay more attention and our brain records every detail; consequently, it feels like time expands. In his book entitled Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, neu­roscientist David Eagleman of Baylor College of Medicine asks us to remember back to our first kiss. Everything about that moment is novel — the touch of the lips, the excite­ment, the taste, the smell — and you aren't relying upon a bank of previous experiences, you are starting fresh. Eagle­man says that when you recall your first kiss, early birthdays, your earliest summer vaca­tions, they seem to be in slow motion. "I know when I look back on a childhood summer, it seems to have lasted forever," he says.
That's because there are so many things to remember when it's the "first". The list of encoded memories is so dense and detailed that remember­ing or reliving them gives you a feeling that they must have taken forever. But that's an illusion. "It's a construction of the brain," says Eagleman. "The more memory you have of something, you think, 'Wow, that really took a long time!'
"Of course, you can see this in everyday life," says Eagleman, "when you drive to your new workplace for the first time and it seems to take a really long time to get there. But when you drive back and forth to your work every day after that, it takes no time at all, because you're not really writ­ing it down anymore. There's nothing novel about it."
With age, though, new experiences diminish and it tends to be more of the same, so time seems to pass more quickly. Whether or not this is true, there is some psychologi­cal evidence that time passes quicker for older people. One study has found that people in their 20's are pretty accurate at guessing an interval of 3 min­utes, but people in their 60's systematically overestimate it, suggesting time is passing about 20% more quickly for them.
Back to Eagleman's Incog­nito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. Eagle­